Things That Annoy You

[Witchyjoshy]

I just found out what Boku no Pico is.

Welp, I know why all the pages regarding it on TV Tropes were nuked now.

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It's a shotacon anime.  If you don't know what shotacon is, it's basically the fetishization of underage boys.

[ironbite]

I laugh at you so so hard.

[Askold]

That would also explain why every single time when someone on 4chan asks what is the source for ANY random anime image they do not recognise is half the answers are "Boku no pico."

HA HA, this moron does not recognise (insert random obscure anime series) I shall direct him to shotacon series instead. That will show him.

[niam2023]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdjv_afHmV4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdjv_afHmV4</a>

[RavynousHunter]

there's a particular problem, similar to Y2K, that might actually cause problems: the Year 2038 problem.  Basically, unless 64-bit architectures become ubiquitous before 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038, the time on many machines will roll over to midnight UTC on 1 January 1970, because of the way machines store and increment the time.

That's only an issue with 32-bit machines that count seconds using UNIX time. The counter would theoretically overflow to the 13th of December 1901 in a naive implementation, but memory has gotten far more abundant since the 70s and if you're willing to store the year, date, etc. as several numbers and implement new time and date functions (which is harder to debug than it seems), a 32-bit machine could theoretically keep time for billions of years.

There may not be any 32-bit desktops around by 2038 but embedded systems would still benefit.

Unfortunately, every hardware architecture of which I'm aware stores and manipulates time in the old-school UNIX fashion.  If memory serves, everything eventually comes back to hardware time despite whether or not they use local machine time or sync it from an external source.

Given how far hardware has come in the last decade, I think we'll see 64-bit UNIX time as a standard before the Year 2038 problem comes anywhere near to being a potential issue.  Hell, we'll probably be running on 256-bit CPUs, by that point.

[Art Vandelay]

Storms. It wasn't enough for the bastard to turn the yard into a fucking swamp, it also had to fry the router. Kind of my own fault for leaving it plugged in, but still very very annoying all the same.

[Witchyjoshy]

You don't have a surge protector?

[Svata]

Sliced into my finger this morning while making breakfast.

[Art Vandelay]

You don't have a surge protector?

Nope. I should probably consider getting one.

[Witchyjoshy]

You don't have a surge protector?

Nope. I should probably consider getting one.

They're cheap and pretty much always useful so you should probably get more than one.

[dpareja]

You don't have a surge protector?

Nope. I should probably consider getting one.

I recommend an uninterruptible power supply. They serve as both surge protectors and battery backups so that if there's a power failure, you can turn off your equipment rather than have it shut off suddenly.

[guizonde]

You don't have a surge protector?

Nope. I should probably consider getting one.

They're cheap and pretty much always useful so you should probably get more than one.

I spent 50€ more than necessary on my comp's power supply to have one that has a surge protector built in. Saved my computer prehaps more than 6 times in 3 years. Totally worth it. Then again, it's a tower, and I don't know if it exists for laptops.

[Ironchew]

Surge protectors for ethernet lines are still pricey. It may not be an issue with wireless devices, but my house has several long runs of Cat5 cable and a close bolt of lightning fried the network adapter on my laptop a few years ago.

Granted, it's not too expensive for one cable, but it adds up with multiple runs.

[niam2023]

My mom randomly choosing to switch to AT&T, resulting in a confusing, hellish selection of channels, all of my routine channels changed and On Demand is finnicky and useless most of the time. It requires changing to a specific channel to get audio, and I do not know where any of my channels are.

There are more than a thousand of them now, and numerous duplicates.

I hate AT&T, I hate the fat, repugnant turd that she called out here to help her change the TV, and I wish he would've drowned on his way here.

I remain convinced she did this all out of a mixture between stupidity and malice. She just likes randomly changing things around here, and expecting everyone to nod and play along. Well, when the bastard comes back over, I intend to make his stay here for the work very uncomfortable. All the horror will be in his head.

[Art Vandelay]

I've never seen so much melodramatic angst directed at a cable guy who by the sound of things was just doing his job.